Are fiscal budgets sustainable in South Africa? Evidence from provincial level data

• Authors: Kavase Kaambale , Phiri Andrew
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This study uses the nonlinear autoregressive distributive lag (N-ARDL) model to investigate the expenditure-revenue relationship for all nine South African provinces using annual data spanning from 2000 to 2016. Whereas other cointegration models can only depict whether budgets are sustainable or not, the N-ARDL model presents features which further enable us to predict a course of action which individual provincial governments can take towards attaining higher levels of budgetary sustainability in both the short and the long-run. Ultimately, our empirical study demonstrates that the ‘one rule fit all’ strategy as suggested by previous studies may not be an appropriate approach seeing that provincial governments have differing requirements for attaining improved levels of budget sustainability.

Keywords

EN

Fiscal expenditures; fiscal revenues; budget sustainability; South Africa.

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Prague Development Center, Czech Republic
• Journal: Business and Economic Horizons
• Year: 2018
• Volume: Volume 14
• Issue: Issue 2
• Pages: 415-423

Dates

published

2018-02-22

Contributors

author

Kavase Kaambale

• Faculty Eastern Cape Socio Economic Consultation Council, South Africa

author

Phiri Andrew

• Faculty of Business and Economic Studies, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa

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